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Professor James Freeman

Ph.D -- Indiana University, 1973. Joined the Hunter College faculty in 1978. He
previously taught at Indiana University, Butler University, Bloomfield College,
and was a research associate at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
His research includes logic, both formal and informal, argumentation theory,
and epistemology. His papers appear in a number of journals, especially
Informal Logic and Argumentation. He is the author of Thinking Logically: Basic
Concepts for Reasoning, published by Prentice Hall. This is a text for informal
logic courses. He has also published two monographs, Dialectics and the
Macrostructure of Arguments, with Foris Publications, a division of Walter de Gruyter,
and Acceptable Premises: An Epistemic Approach to an Informal Logic Problem,
with Cambridge University Press.

"Can Argumentation Deal With World-View Dissensus?" presented in June 2010 as the keynote address at the 7th biennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) in Amsterdam.Keynote.pdf